# MACHINERY
> **FATAL** · MSHA accident `220190710003` · 03/07/2019 · South Fork Coal Co., LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** FATALITY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
- **Activity:** Hand load, Hand shoveling
- **Injury source:** SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- **Nature of injury:** CRUSHING
- **Body part:** HEAD, MULTIPLE PARTS
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 1.69 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** White Forest Resources, Inc
- **Operator:** South Fork Coal Co., LLC
- **Mine:** [3304642](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3304642)
## Narrative

Victim was assisting with extracting the highwall miner cars.  EE had been shoveling dirt/mud off the deck of the miner.  EE was standing at the rear of the deck while a car was being extracted and for unknown reason head came forward and was caught between the car and a support post. Suffered crushing injuries to the head.

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*Source: [MSHA Open Government Data](https://arlweb.msha.gov/OpenGovernmentData/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*